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case and contrast
By contrast, in an inquisitiorial system, the fact that the defendant has confessed is merely one more fact that is entered into evidence, and a confession by the defendant does not remove the requirement that the prosecution present a full case.
Zealous by contrast was barely touched: Hood had situated Zealous outside the arc of most of the French ship's broadside and in any case Guerrier was not prepared for an engagement on both sides simultaneously, with its port guns blocked by stores.
In contrast, " subjectivist " statisticians deny the possibility of fully objective analysis for the general case.
In the case of Xhosa, there is a four-way contrast analogous to Indic in oral clicks, and similarly a two-way contrast among nasal clicks, but a three-way contrast among plosives and affricates ( breathy voiced, aspirated, and ejective ), and two-way contrasts among fricatives ( voiceless and breathy voiced ) and nasals ( voiced and breathy voiced ).
By contrast, in civil law jurisdictions ( the legal tradition that prevails in, or is combined with common law in, Europe and most non-Islamic, non-common law countries ), courts lack authority to act where there is no statute, and judicial precedent is given less interpretive weight ( which means that a judge deciding a given case has more freedom to interpret the text of a statute independently, and less predictably ), and scholarly literature is given more.
The contrast between civil law and common law legal systems has become increasingly blurred, with the growing importance of jurisprudence ( similar to case law but not binding ) in civil law countries, and the growing importance of statute law and codes in common law countries.
In contrast, though Oslo ( Norway ) and Stockholm ( Sweden ) are quite dominant in terms of speech standards, cities like Bergen, Gothenburg and the Malmö-Lund region are large and influential enough to create secondary regional norms, making the standard language more varied than is the case with Danish.
By contrast, nouns have no distinct nominative and objective forms, the two being merged into a single plain case.
While he is a confirmed compatibilist on free will, in " On Giving Libertarians What They Say They Want " – Chapter 15 of his 1978 book Brainstorms, Dennett articulated the case for a two-stage model of decision making in contrast to libertarian views.
By contrast, the EM far-field is composed of radiation that is free of the transmitter in the sense that ( unlike the case in an electrical transformer ) the transmitter requires the same power to send these changes in the fields out, whether the signal is immediately picked up, or not.
In contrast, patient testimonials, case reports, and even expert opinion ( however some critics have argued that expert opinion " does not belong in the rankings of the quality of empirical evidence because it does not represent a form of empirical evidence " and continue that " expert opinion would seem to be a separate, complex type of knowledge that would not fit into hierarchies otherwise limited to empirical evidence alone.
In contrast to Positivism, which held that statements are meaningless if they cannot be verified or falsified, Popper claimed that falsifiability is merely a special case of the more general notion of criticizability, even though he admitted that empirical refutation is one of the most effective methods by which theories can be criticized.
By contrast, a truth is contingent if it just happens to be the case, for instance, " more than half of the planet is covered by water ".
Some believe that neck sizing will permit a larger number of reloads with a given case in contrast to full size resizing, although this is controversial.
In contrast, in frames accelerating with respect to the fixed stars, an important case being frames rotating relative to the fixed stars, the laws of motion did not hold in their simplest form, but had to be supplemented by the addition of fictitious forces, for example, the Coriolis force and the centrifugal force.
In many common law jurisdictions ( e. g. the Republic of Ireland, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Australia, New Zealand ), an indictable offence is an offence which can only be tried on an indictment after a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is a prima facie case to answer or by a grand jury ( in contrast to a summary offence ).
Arbitral tribunals, by contrast, are constituted anew for each case.
In any case, there are two large caveats to contrast ratio as a measure of LCD performance.
Lie groups are smooth manifolds and, therefore, can be studied using differential calculus, in contrast with the case of more general topological groups.
In contrast, the tag in HTML is an example of presentational markup ; it is generally used to specify a particular characteristic of the text ( in this case, the use of an italic typeface ) without specifying the reason for that appearance.
By contrast, many ethical philosophers have tried to prove some of their claims about ethics by appealing to an analysis of the meaning of the term " good "; they held, that is, that " good " can be defined in terms of one or more natural properties which we already understand ( such as " pleasure ", in the case of hedonists ).
The study authors suggest physician evaluation via contrast enhanced CT scans for the presence of pulmonary emboli when caring for patients diagnosed with respiratory complications from a " severe " case of the H1N1 flu.

case and appears
What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.
This keys the middle infielders and the catcher to let their guard down, as it appears the runner is not stealing, but only getting a good secondary lead in case the ball is hit.
Intuitively, one would expect systems which collect more than one type of data to be more useful than systems which collect only one type of information ( such as single-purpose laboratory or 911 call-center based systems ), and be less prone to false alarms, and this appears to be the case.
More generally, unspecific coercion may be the form taken by disciplinary coercion, and this appears to be in fact the case within the most effective command systems of the modern world.
It appears that no article I, section 5 content-based violation exists in this case.
In case of capture, Israeli soldiers are instructed to provide the information that appears on the dog tag and their rank only.
The problem with this view is that there appears to be no such scope distinction in the case of proper names.
At first glance, Erewhon appears to be a Utopia, yet it soon becomes clear that this is far from the case.
Block's case has continued for five years and he has gone from being a successful businessman to being almost bankrupt and is virtually enslaved by his dependence on the lawyer and Leni, with whom he appears to be sexually involved.
One consequence of this theory is a variable speed of light, where photon speed would vary with energy, and some zero-mass particles might possibly travel faster than c. However, even if this theory is accurate, it is still very unclear whether it would allow information to be communicated, and appears not in any case to allow massive particles to exceed c.
Therefore whenever ( G ) appears before another representative lowercase letter ( subject ), the statement would read, " It is always Going to be the case ..." and whenever ( F ) appears before another subject, the statement would read, " At sometime in the Future it will be the case ...." Whenever ( H ) appears before another subject, the statement would read, " It Has always been the case ..." and whenever ( P ) appears before another subject, the statement would read, " At sometime in the Past it has been the case ...."

case and largely
The claims of Hawkins were largely dismissed, but this was not the case for Alexander Thom's work, whose survey results of megalithic sites hypothesized widespread practice of accurate astronomy in the British Isles.
In cultivated areas, limestone may also be added to increase the ability of the soil to keep the pH stable, but this tactic is largely unusable in the case of wilderness lands.
In Taverne's case, he had been fighting efforts by the Lincoln Constituency Labour Party to deselect him largely over his support for British membership of the European Communities.
The field of modern biotechnology is thought to have largely begun on June 16, 1980, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that a genetically modified microorganism could be patented in the case of Diamond v. Chakrabarty.
A different dimension on which dictionaries ( usually just general-purpose ones ) are sometimes distinguished is whether they are prescriptive or descriptive, the latter being in theory largely based on linguistic corpus studies — this is the case of most modern dictionaries.
The major change in nominal morphology was the loss of the dative case ( its functions being largely taken over by the genitive ); in the verb, the major change was the loss of the infinitive, with a concomitant rise in new periphrastic forms.
Modern English has largely abandoned the inflectional case system of Indo-European in favor of analytic constructions.
The remaining effect of this act, which has largely been superseded by the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, is the warning "* Warning: May be habit forming " on labels, package inserts, and other places where ingredients are listed in the case of many opioids, barbiturates, medicinal formulations of cocaine, and chloral hydrate.
While it never baldly advocates the case for broader societal acceptance of homosexuality or for the abandonment of elements of the Jewish religious tradition, those causes are subtly evident in the stark, simplistic picture the film presents of sincere, conflicted and victimized men and women confronted by a largely stern and stubborn cadre of rabbis.
The ensuing discussion of a potential political deal between Germany and the Soviet Union had to be channeled into the framework of economic negotiations between the two countries, because close military and diplomatic connections, as was the case before mid-1930s, had afterward been largely severed.
Such was the case in the Soviet Union, where the economy was largely agrarian and urban industry was in a primitive stage.
Witchcraft today is largely a case of " make do ".
State churches are not necessarily national churches in the ethnic sense of the term, but the two concepts may overlap in the case of a nation state where the state boundary largely corresponds to the distribution of a single ethnic group to which a certain denomination is attached as an aspect of ethnic identity.
The provision was largely inspired by the case in England of Titus Oates who, after the ascension of King James II in 1685, was tried for multiple acts of perjury which had caused many executions of people whom Oates had wrongly accused.
In any case, their purpose had been largely fulfilled, and Mao had largely consolidated his political power.
This is largely the case in some states where Islam is the state religion ; conversion to Islam is encouraged, conversion from Islam penalised.
The question of whether a case should be determined by a jury depends largely on the type of relief the plaintiff requests.
In this case, yaoi is used to describe titles that contain largely sex scenes and other sexually explicit themes and shōnen-ai is used to describe titles that focus more on romance and do not include explicit sexual content, although they may include implicit sexual content.
Since 2001, the case average was only 265 per year, excluding an outbreak of > 6000 cases in 2006 attributed largely to university contagion in young adults .< ref >
By the time of Diocletian, however, this two-stage process had largely disappeared, and the Praetor would either hear the whole case in person or appoint a delegate ( a iudex pedaneus ), taking steps for the enforcement of the decision ; the formula was replaced by an informal system of pleadings.
The case, which has begun in 336 BC, finally concludes with the overwhelming defeat of Aeschines, largely because of Demosthenes ' brilliant speech for Ctesiphon ( On the Crown ).
In the Russian language, the locative case has largely lost its use as an independent case and become the prepositional case, which is used only after a preposition.

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